ERF writes another sappy blog

check it out, feminists!



ps - does anyone wanna contribute or collaborate with me on a body image piece for my blog? i'd like include a diversity of experiences with body image -- not just the chubs experience. or, even add more voices to the chubs experience. but i think it'd be nice to include issues of gender, tallness or shortness, ability, etc. think about it and let me know!

Woman's Work

spn_womens work - luminosity & sisabet

I've been studying remix videos and fanvids for library school (I know, poor me), and I came across this amazing video. The remixers use scenes from the television show Supernatural to make a statement about the use (or disposal) of women in the media. I know that if you put together all the graphic and exoticized deaths of women on tv shows like Law & Order, it would be quite a collection, but I've never seen a compilation like this before.
These ladies know what they are doing. The editing is first-rate, and the emotional impact of the video really hits you in the gut. This video is a prime example of the reason why it's important that people participate in culture. We can watch shows like this, but we have to stay aware and be able to critique the cultures that we have to live in.

Mayor of Cakeville

Two things about this cake:

This cake is a bakery rendition of Audre Lorde’s awesome quote “When I dare to be powerful. To use my strength in the service of my vision – then it is less and less important whether I am afraid.”

Basically, I see this cake I am saying a big F.U. to sizist body standards that trick women into believing that shrinking to a pre-adolescent body is desirable. In cake town I am moving away from a world that is caught up on calories, fat grams and pants sizes - a game I will never win because both loosing and victory are harmful and disappearing women aren’t super alive women. This cake has got me disregarding the value of size and daring the chance to physically take up more space in the world as a woman. At the same time, as I jam out in cake town, I am shifting the dialogue and energy I send in the day as a lady away from oppressive standards/discourses placed on women and on to my voice, my power and my vision – I am helping to make a new discourse a new set of feminist standards. This cake is about manifesting more personal awesomeness and claiming the right to do it while sharing that awesome land with other ruling bitches.
Pretty much, this is a ruler feminist cake.

Unicorns & Puppies!

i posted a new blog, my friends!

slate article on the whole ingraham-mccain-coulter kerfuffle

totally digging the hell out of dahlia lithwick's feminist breakdown of this week's (stupid) fight between laura ingraham, megan mccain, and ann coulter (although the latter didn't engage).

click on the title of this entry to get to the article.

Dear Little Erin

I wrote a sappy new blog, wherein I write a letter to myself as a child (it was for a school assignment). But check it out!

Click on "dear little erin" above to go to the new post.

I can't stop talking about my body

Hello friends. I just wanted to let you know that I posted another blog. Egh, and I guess I like to promote it a little bit. Tell your people to read it. Comment! Subscribe! And, tell yourself something nice about your amazing body -- it's a pretty big part of how you're alive, right?!

Also, please consider linking my blog to your blog (if you have one). Feminist friends have to scratch each other's backs, you know? But in a consensual, healthy boundaries kind of way.

One of my 6 year old clients, a brilliant little scrapper who loves to draw and kick the "bop bag" said this the other day: "Kicking people is different than kicking the bop bag, because people have skin! But what if we didn't have skin? That would be gross -- everything would slide around." Yes, Scrapper, let's be thankful for our skin!

xo
Erin

click on the title of this blog to go to MY blog...the link down here wasn't working.